Every year, April 24 reminds me of a great man: Professor Kazem Rajavi, member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and brother of Massoud Rajavi, Leader of the Iranian Resistance. He was literally a great martyr to the cause of human rights in Iran.

By Mitchell B. ReissThe president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Maryam Rajavi, addressed a crowd gathered in front of the European Union Council building in Brussels, in January 2009.

From right, Fatmir Mediu, Chairman of the Republican Party of Albania; Rudy Giuliani, advisor to the US President in Cyber Security; Maryam Rajavi; Elona Gjebrea, secretary of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee of Albania; and Pandeli Majko, senior State Minister for Diaspora, at the gathering of a large group of PMOI members, congratulated the Persian New Year to the people of Iran.

In the final moments before the beginning of the Persian New Year in the gathering of the PMOI freedom fighters in Albania, Maryam Rajavi laid a wreath at the monument of martyrs of Iran uprising and paid tribute to the martyrs before their portraits. In a brief remark, she said:

Lawmakers call for comprehensive sanctions against the regime, expulsion of the IRGC from the region

In remarks marking the anniversary of the anti-monarchic revolution on February 11, 1979, and in the wake of the Iranian people’s uprising December 28, 2017 – mid-January 2018, Maryam Rajavi addressed a meeting on February 10 entitled, “Iran Uprising, Iranian Youths for Regime Change.”